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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Allow the Universe’s abundance to drench you

What you don’t have will always torment you.
And what you have will always be taken for granted, often forgotten. If you can
swap these two patterns of thinking and living, you will be in bliss! Which is,
take for granted, and if you will, forget about what you don’t have and instead
rejoice over what you do have!

Staying wedded to what you don’t have is
staying steeped in scarcity thinking. Celebrating and loving what you have is
abundance thinking! Noted author and speaker, Dr.Wayne Dyer, 72, explains it so
simply, so powerfully: “Abundance is not something we acquire. Abundance is
something we tune into.”

Abundance, despite its glorious potential,
is still a poor contender in the cosmic sweepstakes. What hogs most of human
attention, most of the time, is the negativity that we ourselves create around
us. And from within us. Everything seems to be wrong with the world. Hunger,
Disease, Suffering, Terrorism. Everything also seems to be wrong with your own
world too. You have so many problems that an immediate shortlist is, well,
impossible! It is always a long litany of woes! Then there’s your view of the
world. Where you imagine that someone is better off, happier, wealthier than
you are. So, that comparison unleashes a whole set of new problems __ both
perceptional and real! With so much negativity, how can one tune into abundance?

Yesterday, my wife and I had to walk through
a crowded, noisy street __ full of people, vehicles, hawkers and litter! We had
just finished a rather exacting day__having had to examine a fully blown, 70mm,
version of our Life and our immediate, attendant problems. By the evening we
were exhausted, battered and bruised. But the busy street necessitated deft negotiations
with its other occupants to create enough room for both of us to walk. At one
point, I realized, my wife was holding my hand. It was a beautiful moment of
discovery. It was energizing. I realized how blessed I was, in these times, to
have a companion that, literally, was willing to walk hand in hand with me. I
was drenched in the abundance of that moment, in the beauty of that
realization! All my problems seemed momentarily insignificant. What mattered
was the joy of knowing how blessed my Life is!

Indeed, to be happy, peaceful and blissful we
have no other choice but to celebrate the abundance in and around us! And to
celebrate abundance, we must align our intention,
attention and energy! All of us have the right intentions. Because none of us
wakes up planning or wanting to do a bad job. So, from an intention
perspective, we are all winners. Each of us wants to do good, be happy and be
successful. But where is our attention? Almost all of the time, our attention
is not on what we want to do or what we want to become. That is, our attention
is NEVER on our intention. Our attention is on what we don’t have, on our wants
and on what worries us. So, fundamentally our attention is steeped in scarcity
while our intention is to be soaked in abundance. Isn’t it jarring?

That really explains why we are all caught in
the world wide web of depression, pain and suffering. Being grateful for
the blessings and abundance in your Life is a sure way of driving out depression.
None of us forgets to brush our teeth in the mornings. But how many of us
remember to be grateful when we wake up for another day to live, another day to
love and be loved, another day to serve and be served?

Look at your Life afresh. Look at what you want done in the remainder of
your lifetime. Look at what’s AVAILABLE __ than what is MISSING! Discover the
abundance in your Life, love it, than brood over what’s scarce, and allow
yourself to be drenched by it!